Quantum Computing Is the Next Revolution
Michio Kaku
Physicist Michio Kaku explains why quantum computing will transform medicine, AI, and civilization itself.
Why we picked this
Kaku has a gift for making the bleeding edge of physics feel like common sense. This is a sharp, accessible primer on quantum computing.
Michio Kaku is one of the rare physicists who can explain the genuinely strange without losing either the strangeness or the explanation. In this Big Think segment, he takes quantum computing — a topic most people file under “sounds important, don’t understand it” — and makes the core idea click.
Classical computers process bits: ones and zeros. Quantum computers process qubits, which can be both at once. That’s the standard line, but Kaku goes further, explaining what this actually means for drug discovery, artificial intelligence, and the kinds of problems that would take classical computers longer than the age of the universe to solve.
At under 11 minutes, it’s the kind of explainer you watch once and then find yourself explaining to someone else at dinner.